On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, William Allen Simpson wrote:
> According to CVS, there appear to be 2 other files written in src.  
> However, these are leftover from earlier invocations, so I'm not sure 
> they are still written, but they should be checked.
> 
> ? gnu/usr.sbin/sendmail/cf/cf/netbsd-msp.cf
> ? gnu/usr.sbin/sendmail/cf/cf/netbsd-proto.cf

I was plagued by that problem for a long time, and eventually discovered
that etcupdate evilly runs "make" in a way that allows it to write to
the source directory.  To make etcupdate DTRT, you have to manually
unpack the etc.tgz set somewhere, and pass that location to etcupdate's
"-b" option.  See the 4-line recipe in the middle of the EXAMPLES
section of the etcupdate man page.

I suspect that your src/etc/MAKEDEV problem (mentioned in a different
message, not quoted above) has the same root cause.

--apb (Alan Barrett)